Or the people are just spontaneously dumb?

I mean, what’s the point of living in a gated community if you need to drive to places filled with poors to buy shit, or have a beer, or hook up with someone in your tax bracket, or etc?

These are places where to sleep but not to live, and they put them really fucking away from basic needs. C'mon at least just put a fucking grocery store with overpriced tomatoes

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    What I'm saying is this: Let's say you build 10 houses, and only one is close to amenities. That one house is now mad expensive because all the rich people want to buy it. But that is only the case because the other 9 aren't, if every house is close to amenities the issue doesn't really exist any more, at least not to that extent, because it's not like rich people will just buy every house for themselves just because it has amenities. This kind of planning makes 0 sense.

    • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      because it's not like rich people will just buy every house for themselves

      Actually this reminded me of an anecdote, I had a rich friend in college that lived in a very large house on the north side of Chicago. Anyway a person in their neighborhood bought the neighboring multi million dollar house and then leveled it bc he wanted the extra yard space between him and the neighbor lol

          • theother2020 [comrade/them, she/her]
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            3 years ago

            You must know about this

            [Zuck] has a knack for also buying surrounding properties to ensure his privacy. He has bought the four homes surrounding his main Palo Alto residence and a stake in a beach next to a plantation he purchased in Kauai.

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              ironically, no reasonable human wants to be near him anyway

            • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Wasnt aware, tbh I don’t really follow social media news too much. Absolutely wild tho. The incident I was talking about would have happened in the mid to late 2000s.

    • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That’s fair this is just what I’ve observed in my experience trying to find places to live for me and my family.

      Definitely agree it makes no sense from perspective the providing for people’s needs. I can only assume it exists to squeeze a bit extra profit out of the homes for developers and/or maintain a sort of housing caste system in the city.